PART ONE
SURRENDER OF ITALY
SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
The following conditions of an Armistice are presented by General DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, acting by authority of the Governments of the United States and Great Britain and in the interest of the United Nations, and are accepted by Marshal PIETRO BADOGLIO, Head of the Italian Government:
1. Immediate cessation of all hostile activity by the Italian armed forces.
2. Italy will use its best endeavors to deny, to the Germans, facilities that might be used against the United Nations.
3. All prisoners or internees of the United Nations to be immediately turned over to the Allied Commander-in-Chief, and none of these may now or at any time evacuated to Germany.
4. Immediate transfer of the Italian Fleet and Italian aircraft to such points as may be designated
Cassibile, 3 settembre 1943
Settembre 1943 in Italia
Negli Stati Uniti
Il messaggio agli americani di Arturo Toscanini ripreso
dalla rivista LIFE del 13 settembre 1943
La copertina de "La Domenica del Corriere"
del 5 settembre 1943